Arachnophobia wrote:hiho again, got one lil proposal:Change Emden to Bremerhaven. That way you got an explanation why Bremen is landlocked (which is actually a port city from back in the Hanse days, seatrade was very important for the development of the city) and the territory of Emden streches so far east and north when its actually on the most western side of germany...

apart from that, the rivers and mountains are all not really realistic so I doubt we have a dire need to change a few of them when we dont change all. Im all for adding the mountain range between Trier and Mainz. That would actually be one of the most realistic impassables on the map

Also im all for the coat of arms, although you could make them a tad more visible (esspecially for Norddeutschland and Sachsen-Thüringen, these are neary invisible). You could leave them out on the minimap though

You need to start thinking about army circles. These impact the graphics a lot, and you might need to move one or two territory names to fit one in nicely. You will be fine on most territories but I doubt that something like Karlsruhe will do well with one the way it is now.

The Neon Peon wrote:You need to start thinking about army circles. These impact the graphics a lot, and you might need to move one or two territory names to fit one in nicely. You will be fine on most territories but I doubt that something like Karlsruhe will do well with one the way it is now.

The 88 tests done earlier show that circles are not necessary and that everything fits fine and is legible.

The Neon Peon wrote:You need to start thinking about army circles. These impact the graphics a lot, and you might need to move one or two territory names to fit one in nicely. You will be fine on most territories but I doubt that something like Karlsruhe will do well with one the way it is now.

Nice work on it so far.

I don't think army circles will be necessary on this map... I didn't put one on this page, but take a look at page 13 and you can see an example of army #'s on the map. I tried to make the continent colors not too saturated so circles wouldn't be needed. But any suggestions on the colors are still appreciated.

DiM wrote:i see everyone is yelling quench so i hate to be the party pooper but i think the borders need to be redrawn. i mean they're to damn wobbly and from what i've seen on other maps they shouldn't be.

other than that i'd love to see the background flags be a bit more visible but that may impair the legibility of the map.

anyway i think there will be sorious problems with the army numbers on the small map in regions like Osnabruck or Munster.

btw does the rule with the small being 33% smaller than large still exist? cause that would make the small map on this one really frickin tiny. it would be something like 460*400

You'll need some others' support if you want me to change the borders. I purposely made them so ahh... detailed; I'd call it more of a unique style I tried. Which I think works well for this map.You're right about the small map though, I wanted to keep the 33% limit which will warrant a few border adjustments.

Changes (all edits since the update a few months ago):-Emden is now Bremerhaven.-The opacity of the coats of arms in the continents has been slightly increased.-Added mountains between Trier and Mainz so Koblenz is not so oddly shaped.-Erased the individual territory borders on the minimap.-We now have a small map -Moved a few borders and territory names to get some numbers to fit into the small version.

i'd maybe like the water to be a bit more blue and a bit less purple and the emblem of baden-wurttemberg to be slightly more obvious on the small version but, even if u change nothing, it's a great-looking map!

Sorry if this has been discussed already but just an idea... Why not make the emblems way more proeminent on the bonus map and remove them from the play map? It seems still barely visible and making them more apparent might impair playability, showing them well but only on the bonus map would make more sense IMO.

iancanton wrote:i'd maybe like the water to be a bit more blue and a bit less purple and the emblem of baden-wurttemberg to be slightly more obvious on the small version but, even if u change nothing, it's a great-looking map!

ian.

Ok thanks, I'll work on this stuff a bit more.

ga7 wrote:Sorry if this has been discussed already but just an idea... Why not make the emblems way more proeminent on the bonus map and remove them from the play map? It seems still barely visible and making them more apparent might impair playability, showing them well but only on the bonus map would make more sense IMO.

I may pronounce the coats of arms on the minimap a bit more, I'll see how it looks.However, I still like the emblems on the map, and I don't think I'll be removing them unless there are enough people in opposition to them.

Optimus Prime wrote:I'm not sure what everyone else thinks, but you might think of making the contrast between the two yellow continents a little more apparent. They blend together pretty easy at the moment.

I agree that the yellows have the least contrast, and could do with some more.